Rare Bar & Grill (Lexington)

Rare Bar & Grill (Lexington)Rare Bar & Grill in Murray Hill, New York is a trendy bar with great grub & even better views. Enjoy the cityscape with your artisan burger with Party Earth.New YorkUnited States40.748418-73.978044

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A Murray Hill mainstay since 2003, Rare Bar & Grill combines upscale diner fare and sweeping rooftop views, allowing its dapper patrons to enjoy their steakhouse burgers with a side of the Chrysler Building.
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Rare Bar &amp; Grill in Murray Hill, New York is a trendy bar with great grub &amp; even better views. Enjoy the cityscape with your artisan burger with Party Earth.

Murray Hill, New York –

A Murray Hill mainstay since 2003, Rare Bar & Grill combines upscale diner fare and sweeping rooftop views, allowing its dapper patrons to enjoy their steakhouse burgers with a side of the Chrysler Building.

The south side, to be exact.

Attached to the boutique Affinia Shelburne hotel, Rare’s street-level restaurant performs a lot of in-house catering for executive luncheons, with plenty of visiting businessmen in Brooks Brothers suits stopping in to sip twelve-year-old Macallan at two in the afternoon.

The chic but casual dining area goes for a sleek tavern look, with lots of hardwood tables where local lawyers and bankers can savor artisan burgers and tequila-flambéd T-bones as they check the scores on the TV, and where forever twenty-somethings can sip pinot and eye the passersby from a window booth.

Warm evenings promise a line at the elevator heading for the seasonal rooftop, where stylish couples grab a daybed and catch the last rays of sun, while sophisticated fashionistas and finance types settle onto cozy indoor/outdoor furniture to flirt over fruity cocktails.

DJs turn things up a notch by 7:30pm on the rooftop, prompting trendy locals to head up and get sufficiently tipsy before venturing to a nearby club.

A fun atmosphere that makes for a nice lunch or a great start to the night, Rare Bar & Grill is still going strong after all these years – a rare thing in New York’s ever-competitive nightlife industry.

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Tip from Adriana:

Rare offers four private rooms for that special gathering you’ve been planning, including the East Side View area on the roof during the summer.

Crowd

Trendy hotel guests, young executive and local business types, fashionable pre-club crowd, yuppie tourists, low-key but well-to-do Manhattanites, early 20s to 40s.

Entertainment / Music

DJs spin mostly Top 40 from 7:30pm to close on the rooftop when it's open.

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Hot Nights / When to Go

Any night after 10pm for the late-night Happy Hour, or Friday and Saturday nights for the biggest pre-club crowd.

Close By

Rooftop Lounge at Pod 39 Hotel (145 East 39th Street) is another hotel rooftop joint, this one going for an upscale Mexican theme with tiled tables, terracotta columns, and specialty tequilas paired with its own panoramic views.